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[coreutils] Bug in du with -x flag?
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at gmail dot com>
- To: Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 01:00:24 +0100
- Subject: [coreutils] Bug in du with -x flag?
Hi list,
I always used to use du with the -cxhs options, but since updating to the
latest (8.15-1) version there appears to be a problem caused by -x:
> $ ls -la
> total 392188
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 DKAdmin None 0 Apr 6 00:35 .
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 DKAdmin None 0 Apr 3 05:58 ..
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 DKAdmin None 0 Apr 3 16:28 gcc4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 DKAdmin None 401599997 Apr 6 00:43 gcc472-2-dist.tar.bz2
>
> $ du -xh gcc472-2-dist.tar.bz2
>
> $ du -h gcc472-2-dist.tar.bz2
> 383M gcc472-2-dist.tar.bz2
>
> $
Unless I'm misunderstanding it badly, -x shouldn't make any difference when
counting a real file in the current directory. I wonder if it could have
perhaps been introduced by the recent related bugfix that I read about in
/usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS:
> du -x no longer counts root directories of other file systems.
> [bug introduced in coreutils-5.1.0]
or perhaps some interaction between that and Cygwin's path conversion code?
cheers,
DaveK
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